Referring to All Turkeys as “birds”

[davisd9]

 

[strum]

You did it!   Good job.   Winter Haven, small world.  I grew up around Lakeland.   And my favorite coke is Pepsi.

I lived in lakeland in the 80s for almost 10 years. still have family there.

[guesswho]

You did it!   Good job.   Winter Haven, small world.  I grew up around Lakeland.   And my favorite coke is Pepsi.

I lived in lakeland in the 80s for almost 10 years. still have family there.

I lived there from 65 to 93.   My parents still there.  Played a lot of softball there and  in Bartow in the 80's

[g8rvet]

You did it!   Good job.   Winter Haven, small world.  I grew up around Lakeland.   And my favorite coke is Pepsi.

I was raised in NPR, but we went to the Lakeland Gun Show every year! 

[Cottonmouth]

Where I'm from, a mature male turkey is a gobbler and an immature male is a jake. A tom is a male cat or a brand of tater chips.
Thunder chickens are for the guys that use the calls called "the freak daddy nasty rabbit" and such.

[redleg06]

Nowadays, even the turkey are easily offended and demanding not to be disrespected....

What a time to be alive.

[captpete]

At this point might as well go for eight.

[Mossyguy]

My dad, who is 71, calls them turkeys, jakes, gobblers, or hens. I don't think I've ever heard him say "bird".

I call them anything(some words that I can't repeat here) but I definitely don't call them chickens!

[guesswho]

At this point might as well go for eight.

Y'all helped me, so I'll return the favor.  To me calling them turkeys is just as disrespectful or more so than calling them birds.   

I come from a long line of old school Turkey hunters.  There are turkeys and then there are Wild Turkeys.   They are always referred to as "Wild Turkeys" where I'm from.   Calling them turkeys is pretty much for the people who don't know any better.

[g8rvet]

You are confused guess. 

Wild Turkey is for after the hunt.  Neat or Ice.  I do confess to really liking it with a splash of Diet Coke in it occasionally.   

[Spitten and drummen]

Doing my part to help get this post to page 8.

[RiverRoost]

Hell I'll help out too! I call them birds, gobblers, longbeards, stupid a$$ f$%*# bird, and all the like. I do like hearing older turkey hunters call them gobblers just because I feel like that sounds like an old school, what ya hunt, white haired old man telling tales about his hunt kinda name....... Are we there yet?

[guesswho]

WHite haired old man telling tails?   Reminds me of somebody, just can't picture who.  Got it be getting close to 7.

And g8rvet, I'm probably the only one I know who can drink Wild Turkey on Wild Turkey Drive after killing a Wild Turkey, unless a guest of mine kills a bird, Er, I mean wild turkey.

[Flydown]

I love Wild Turkey! 

[GobbleNut]

WHite haired old man telling tails?   Reminds me of somebody, just can't picture who. 

Yeah,...me neither.  Must be some old guy on another forum.  Ain't none of that type 'round heah.